On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:46:21PM -0400, Arnaud Bergeron wrote: > 2010/4/11 Peter Miller <feu...@gmail.com>: > > xbacklight doesn't seem to work on my HP dv4-1435dx with an intel > > GM45. xrandr shows no "Range" for the backlight. The screen brightness > > does change, but it is affected by the presence of a power chord at > > bootup. > > > > The other problem is the monitor support. I can use an external > > monitor fine by itself, but if I want to use both the VGA and LVDS i > > can't set the display sizes independently, and i can't set them to be > > separate screens, i.e. they both show the same desktop. > > > > I am using a recent snapshot > > > > $ xrandr --output VGA --auto --right-of LVDS > > xrandr: screen cannot be larger than 1280x1280 (desired size 2304x1024) > > You have to set the X virtual screen size before starting X. Then > when you attach a monitor, you use xrandr to "carve up" a portion of > the virtual screen to show on the external screen.
The driver update on tech@ removes this restriction. -0- -- I've enjoyed just about as much of this as I can stand.
